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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:16:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225131658.44d6c380@snowdrop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp>

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:13:27 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
wrote:
| I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but:
| 
| maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types
| > Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*"
| > (testing,  testing, testing)?
| 
| What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty
| annoying in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or
| something?

-* is generally used to indicate that it's a binary package or something
similar which has no chance of working on archs that it's not keyworded
for. package.mask means maybe portable, but too broken for ~arch.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-25 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-22 12:55 [gentoo-dev] mysql-bin ebuild Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 17:19 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-02-24 11:57   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 19:36   ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-02-25  9:18     ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-25 10:13       ` [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask Georgi Georgiev
2005-02-25 10:45         ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-25 13:16         ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-02-25 13:18         ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-02-25 11:40       ` [gentoo-dev] mysql-bin ebuild Martin Holzhauer
2005-02-25 12:44         ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-27  1:26   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 18:46 ` Stuart Herbert
2005-02-22 19:28   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 20:11     ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-23  2:20   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 19:03 ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-22 19:35   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 20:17     ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-22 20:26       ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 14:40         ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-24 15:12           ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 15:12             ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 15:28             ` Jeff Smelser

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